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Lawrence Livermore’s “El Capitan” To Take AMD’s Instinct APU Mainstream

June 22, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

In March 2020, when Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced the exascale “El Capitan” supercomputer contract had been awarded to system builder Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which was also kicking in its “Rosetta” Slingshot 11 interconnect and which was tapping future CPU and GPU compute engines from AMD, the HPC center was very clear that it would be using off-the-shelf, commodity parts from AMD, not custom compute engines. …

HPC

Frontier: Step By Step, Over Decades, To Exascale

May 30, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 9

Any time you build anything with more than 60 million parts, it is going to be a headache. …

At Long Last, HPC Officially Breaks The Exascale Barrier

May 30, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Significant business and architectural changes can happen with 10X improvements, but the real milestones upon which we measure progress in computer science, whether it is for compute, storage, or networking, come at the 1,000X transitions. …

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NCSA Delta Supercomputer Adopts Slingshot But Forgoes Cray “Shasta” Design

April 25, 2022 Dylan Martin 2

When it comes to supercomputing in academia, the cost of a cluster is almost always an issue and this, coupled with the desire to drive as much compute as possible, drives architectural choices. …

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HPE Taps Ayar Labs To Add Silicon Photonics To Slingshot Interconnect

February 24, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

There are so many barriers to capacity increases in high performance computing systems that it would take a long time to rattle them off. …

Sneak Peek At “Sapphire Rapids” Xeons In “Crossroads” Supercomputer

February 10, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

Managing an aging nuclear weapons stockpile requires a tremendous – and ever-increasing – amount of supercomputing performance, and the HPC system business the world over is focused on this as much as trying to crack the most difficult scientific, medical, and engineering problems. …

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Cray’s Slingshot Interconnect Is At The Heart Of HPE’s HPC And AI Ambitions

January 31, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Whenever one company buys another, every product line, every research project, and every employee is ultimately in play. …

The Ghosts Of Itanium – And HPC – Give HPE Long Sought Profits

December 1, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

It may have taken the better part of a decade, but the Itanium platform has yielded the kinds of profits that Hewlett Packard Enterprise long sought and rarely attained. …

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The Venerable Tenacity Of System Supplier HPE

September 3, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Enterprises large and small that depend on Hewlett Packard Enterprise to build their systems and certify them for an absolutely enormous amount of software and support them during a long life in the field should send Thank You notes to the venerable systems maker. …

The Eternal Battle Between InfiniBand And Ethernet In HPC

July 7, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

It is always good to have options when it comes to optimizing systems because not all software behaves the same way and not all institutions have the same budgets to try to run their simulations and models on HPC clusters. …